[ruffmesiter_69]

Hey there,

as you are aware blight has devesated our tomatoes and has killed the majority of the plants, however cutting the dead material out and allowing new growth to form has rescued the day. As we picked the first sucessful fruits.


As you can see there is a lot of blight still there but its not spreading and  eadible fruits are beginning to be plentiful.

Other news this week is, the magnitude of pumpkins, onion harvests, a major weed, and continued harvests.

Regards
Lottieblogs

[WG.]

Reckon your swedes need thinning mate  

[GrannieAnnie]

Yes Ruffy, I seem to be keeping on top of my tom blight too at the moment.  But as I've got a load of fruits on my toms, I'm not letting any new growth form, rather trying to concentrate on gettig all the goodness into what I've got on there and getting them ripe.  

So I'm taking off any new growth and stopped the tom plants where they are at the moment.  I've also taken off a few flowering trusses that haven't set fruit yet.

All we can do is keep trying eh?

[noshed]

My toms are just romping away uncontrollably. Everyone else's are nice and tidy and tied up. Anarcho-toms.

[crowndale]

My toms got blight too so I stripped off all the foiliage and waited and so far most toms have developed well though a few still went manky.  next year hopefully will be better, this year was an improvement on last so it can only get better, I hope! My swedes have all been eaten.  two days ago there were only two left that looked healthy, this morning one very sorry specimen remains, ditto to the one remaining little gem.  Been slugged despite nematodes.  Don't think anything can survive the slugs this year!  And my last batch of strawbs, humungous sized strawbs and every last one eaten by slugs and woodlice, gutted coz they looked really tasty.

[ruffmesiter_69]

My toms got blight too so I stripped off all the foiliage and waited and so far most toms have developed well though a few still went manky.  next year hopefully will be better, this year was an improvement on last so it can only get better, I hope! My swedes have all been eaten.  two days ago there were only two left that looked healthy, this morning one very sorry specimen remains, ditto to the one remaining little gem.  Been slugged despite nematodes.  Don't think anything can survive the slugs this year!  And my last batch of strawbs, humungous sized strawbs and every last one eaten by slugs and woodlice, gutted coz they looked really tasty.

b****y pests hey?

[Sally A]

Vicious haircuts imposed on the blighty toms (the italians) seems to have stopped it in it's tracks.

The one moneymaker I was worried about cos there is a dark patch on the main stem, seems to be thriving.

So am keeping  daily eye on things, but hopefully have beaten it.